“Scary,” “nervous,” “sad,” are all words used by experts, analysts, and realtors to describe recent rounds of layoffs at tech companies like Amazon and Meta, combined with reporting that more could be on the way.
Starting Monday, 2,303 Amazon employees will have their final day with the company, part of the layoffs announced in October. In March, Meta will lay off 331. Last week, Reuters reported that another 16,000 Amazon employees could lose their jobs. KIRO 7 reached out to Amazon to confirm, but a spokesperson said Amazon is not commenting on the report. If that’s true and the same proportion of workers in Seattle are laid off as were in the October announcement, it could mean an additional 2,600 freshly unemployed workers.
“I am very nervous about what’s happening,” said Joe Nguyen, the President & CEO of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, “I think there’s a lot of uncertainty, we’re competing globally, and we don’t have an environment right now where I think the political community and the business community are working very well together.”…